U.S. Department of the Army Secretary and 2024 Wash100 Award winner Christine Wormuth made it clear at this year’s South by Southwest festival in March that the service branch is operating under a software-first directive. She specifically noted that “the Army’s success on future battlefields will depend on [its] ability to rapidly updat...
Amazon Web Services has secured a $114.5 million contract from Army Contracting Command–Rock Island to provide cloud services at Impact Level 6 to the Army Enterprise Cloud Management Agency. A notice posted on SAM.gov states that the contract was awarded under the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability contract vehicle to enable ECMA to provide conti...
Frank Varga, formerly chief operating officer at Apogee Engineering, has been promoted to president and CEO of the Colorado-headquartered national security and defense technology and services provider. He succeeds Wes Georges, founder of Apogee, and helps drive the growth of the company’s capability offerings for the federal and government mar...
There has been very little resistance to funding and beginning to implement the Department of Defense’s zero trust cybersecurity strategy, according to Deputy Chief Information Officer for Cybersecurity and Senior Information Security Officer David McKeown. This, however, is not as much the case with Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification, th...
KBR has received a five-year, $82 million recompete task order from the U.S. Air Force to continue providing sustainment services for the Oklahoma-based office responsible for maintaining the B-52 Stratofortress bomber fleet. The company said Thursday the cost-plus-fixed-fee award from the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center will support the B-5...
Beacon Global Strategies has appointed technology leaders Divyansh Kaushik and Ben Schramm as vice presidents to offer insights to the strategic advisory firm’s global technology policy practice and national security tech practice, respectively. Beacon said Thursday Kaushik brings to the role his experience in national security and artificial inte...
A mechanical engineer by training, Scott Aken has navigated a fascinating route to his current role as president and CEO of network intelligence provider Axellio. He began his career in the commercial sector during the dot-com boom in the late 1990s, where he worked for the sole domain name company. Cybercriminals who made attempts on...
The Missile Defense Agency has awarded VetTech a potential $347.7 million contract for financial management and strategic planning, accounting and cost estimating and analysis support services. The Department of Defense said Tuesday MDA competed the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract through an online solicitation and received two offers for the procureme...
By Cameron Chehreh, vice president and general manager of public sector at Intel Artificial intelligence has become an integral part of our daily lives, with far-reaching potential impacts on government and public services. With AI, mission teams can accelerate data analysis and make faster, more informed decisions from the front lines to city stree...
Iridium Communications (Nasdaq: IRDM) has secured a five-year, $94 million contract to deliver satellite communications support services to Space Systems Command The company said Tuesday it will provide new capabilities and security sustainment services in support of the Enhanced Mobile Satellite Services program under the contract, which has a pote...
